Black & Veatch-Jacobs JV

Black & Veatch-Jacobs JV, a strategic partnership between Black & Veatch and Jacobs, delivers architect-engineer services and defense infrastructure design for missile defense system projects and related military construction initiatives to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor, competing under full-and-open (non-set-aside) conditions exclusively with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

The joint venture is structured as a limited liability partnership based in Leawood, Kansas, and operates as a child entity under Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. (Federal Services Division, doing business as Black & Veatch Architects LLC). All recent work traces to a single source: the Department of the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The vendor holds a $249 million single-award IDIQ contract with NAVFAC Pacific (awarded June 27, 2024, extending through June 26, 2029) for comprehensive architect-engineer services supporting missile defense system projects and infrastructure initiatives across the Pacific region. Twelve task orders under this vehicle carry $84.3 million in combined potential value and govern the bulk of recent activity. The joint venture's capability portfolio centers on geotechnical and topographic surveys, field investigations, hydrogeological assessment, site engineering, design-bid-build submittal packages, post-construction award services, facility testing, engineering technical assistance, and advanced design support incorporating seismic design and electromagnetic pulse shielding — all anchored to defense infrastructure modernization in Guam.

Representative recent work includes a $32.4 million delivery order (September 26, 2024) for field investigations, geotechnical surveys, hydrogeological assessment, and site engineering investigation with design-bid-build submittal packages for Tranche 1 forward operating sites supporting the Guam Defense System; an $11.9 million delivery order (July 1, 2025) for Phase 2 Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense system design and engineering at Naval Base Guam; and an $11.16 million delivery order (January 8, 2026) advancing forward operating sites in the Northern Mariana Islands to 65% final design completion for the FY27 Army Missile Defense Agency's P-236 Guam Defense System project. A $5.4 million task order (January 10, 2025) for design effort supporting the Guam Defense System forward operating sites carries subcontracts with Myounghee Noh & Associates LLC (women-owned small business environmental consulting), ESC Pacific/Esgc Guam LLC (HUBZone-certified geotechnical services), and Controlpoint Surveying Inc. (surveying and mapping). Additional subcontracts on the $32.4 million forward operating sites order include NV5 Geospatial, Inc. for LiDAR geophysical surveying and Guam Surveyor LLC, a women-owned small business, for surveying and mapping.

Customer concentration is absolute: all thirteen awards and 100% of $333.3 million in combined potential value flow through NAVFAC. Activity accelerated from three awards in 2024 to seven in 2025, with three awards through January 2026. Six awards (combined potential value $63.2 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure on the Guam Defense System forward operating sites and Enhanced Integrated Air and Missile Defense initiatives. Only $84.3 million (25% of potential value) is obligated to date, indicating significant unexercised task-order authority under the IDIQ vehicle through mid-2029.